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You can also optionally specify a dependencies path where Monitor will look for files needed to render the MXS. This is in most cases not necessary, especially if you have Send dependencies checked, in which case the Monitor will search for the files using the paths of the textures/files already specified inside the MXS file (even if they are local paths). In can however be useful in these cases:

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• You have Send dependencies unchecked, and the textures/file paths specified in the MXS are still local paths (perhaps in the mean time you have moved all your textures to a networked server). In this case you need to specify a network path to the dependencies.

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Where Monitor searches for dependencies

The Monitor will look for textures/files in the following paths:

• Same path as where the MXS file is.
• Network path to the dependencies (if you have specified a dependencies path in the Add Job wizard)
• "textures" subfolder of the path to any referenced MXM materials in your scene (ie, if your MXS contains a link to referenced material as F:\mxmfiles\gold.mxm, it will search for textures used in that material in F:\mxmfiles\textures\)
• Preferences paths. These are the paths you can specify in Maxwells preferences from File>Preferences>Paths.

Step 6 - Specify the render nodes

Choose the computers you want to work in this job.
 

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You can also check the "Use any render node available" checkbox, and the Monitor will use any node in your farm as soon as they get available.
   

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Render process

Once launched, the Manager sends the necessary files to the nodes, that perform the calculations. When a node the rendering finishes a render, it sends the final image to the Manager, that stores it in your desired output folder, and the node gets available for receiving a new job. You can watch the progress of the work in the display. You can stop the process, remove any job, add more jobs to the queue, and display the images that are being computed by the network using the Monitor interface, the following steps take place:

• The Manager sends a request to all the nodes to send their MXI files to the Manager computer

• The Manager stores each MXI file in its temp folder (which you can specify in the Manager preferences, or it will use the default temp folder location of your system)

• Manager calls mximerge.exe (found in the Maxwell Render install folder) which merges the node MXI files into one final MXI.

• If merging is successful, Manager copies the final MXI file to the output paths specified in the Add Job wizard.

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